To learn Klingon or Esperanto: What invented languages can teach us

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Post by pseudolus » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 12:42 PM UTC

To learn Klingon or Esperanto: What invented languages can teach us
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Post by ngcc_hk » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 1:04 PM UTC

Is computer language invented?

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Post by bradrn » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 1:20 PM UTC

ngcc_hk wrote: post #2

Is computer language invented?

Yes, it is, though strictly speaking it’s not a ‘language’ in the traditional sense.

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Post by popcube » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

ah, fans language is a good experiment for protecting languages!

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Post by jiaminglimjm » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 3:55 PM UTC

The fact that these are available on Duolingo but not Bengali is a mockery to Bangladeshi people.

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Post by pseudolus » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 3:57 PM UTC

The podcast "Imaginary Worlds" featured an episode that dealt with constructed languages "conlangs" (Klingon and Dothraki). It's available at:

https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/do-you-speak...

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Post by aent » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:11 PM UTC

If you are interested in conlangs and world building https://www.youtube.com/c/Artifexian/videos?view=0&sort=p&fl... is an awesome channel for that.

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Post by auvi » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:31 PM UTC

jiaminglimjm wrote: post #6

The fact that these are available on Duolingo but not Bengali is a mockery to Bangladeshi people.

considering that there are about 300 million native Bengali speaking people in the world (mostly in Bangladesh, and West Bengal which is a state in India).

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Post by nkrisc » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:38 PM UTC

jiaminglimjm wrote: post #6

The fact that these are available on Duolingo but not Bengali is a mockery to Bangladeshi people.

How so? Duolingo is not some authoritative list of “languages that are important” where any language not included is, by definition, unimportant.

Sometimes my name isn’t included in those souvenirs that have lots of different names on them, yet it is not a mockery of me.

It probably should be included, but is it really a mockery if it’s not?